Can my kids drink too much water in a day for example when playing soccer on a hot day and get sick?
(Back to Top) For a toddler to have a toxic acute overdose of fluoride, the child would have to ingest about 80 fluoride chewable tablets. For a similar age child to become toxic from fluoridated water ingestion, the child would have to drink about 20 gallons of water. Compare this with the toxic effects of iron where a small child would ingest 10 to 20 children s chewable vitamins with iron or about 4 adult therapeutic iron pills to experience acute symptoms. Simply stated, any individual, child or adult, would experience severe effects from water toxicity long before having an acute toxic reaction to the fluoride in the water.
